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Greg Reinacker
Personal blog · rassoc.com/gregr/weblog · on HN as gr2020startupsbusinessprogramming
Greg Reinacker's personal blog at rassoc.com covers startups, business and programming. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Zero to PostgreSQL streaming replication in 10 mins”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-12, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Greg Reinacker's weblog for its PostgreSQL posts. One comment cites a 2013 post on setting up PostgreSQL replication as a way to move data with little downtime.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Zero to PostgreSQL streaming replication in 10 mins2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-18
What Hacker News says?
I just remembered a blog post I wrote a while back about exactly these points: http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2011/04/13/choosing-a-col...
Comment linking /gregr/weblog/2011/04/13/choosing-a-colocation-vendor-power-and-cooling-part-3/
on “Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com”Submitted Zero to PostgreSQL streaming replication in 10 mins as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's a quick walkthrough of how to set up master/slave streaming replication over SSL: http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2013/02/16/zero-to-postgr... This will work over the internet between data centers if you're so inclined...depending on your traffic, a simple way to get started.
Comment linking /gregr/weblog/2013/02/16/zero-to-postgresql-streaming-replication-in-10-mins/
on “Postgres-XL: Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based Database Cluster”Submitted Enterprise RSS - the State of the Industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> that feature could also allow for a fairly straightforward way to move data from a running instance to a new one That's already relatively straightforward with PostgreSQL's existing replication. This has worked since 9.1: http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2013/02/16/zero-to-postgr... It involves bouncing the master, but it doesn't involve extended downtime. Or is that not what you meant? However, the 'logical log…
Comment linking /gregr/weblog/2013/02/16/zero-to-postgresql-streaming-replication-in-10-mins/
on “PostgreSQL 9.4 – What I was hoping for”Here's a post from a while back on this subject - http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2011/05/16/learning-ruby-...
Comment linking /gregr/weblog/2011/05/16/learning-ruby-and-rails/
on “Ask HN: Where is the best place to learn Ruby?”